Protect-O-Plate Question for '70 LT1

47Hammer · #1 03-21-2006, 01:39 AM

My Protect-O-Plate reads V0323CTB and the block pad stamp is V0327CTB. Is that normal to be off a few days? Any thoughts?

**mockingbird812** · #2 03-21-2006, 01:58 AM

47 Hammer. First off, you'll want to carefully clean the paint off of your stamp pad to confirm that it is an original stamp (broaching and comparing partial VIN to tranny partial VIN - as they are stamped at the same time, if applicable). These are supposed to be left unpainted anyway. A solvent such as paint thinner or brake fluid carefully applied should do the trick - avoid wire brushes as it may deface the stamping pad area. Errors between paperwork (POPs, build sheets, etc) and the actual stampings on the car are more common than you may think. So, it is not out of the realm of possiblity. The smart guys will chime in here, but the stamp pad is stamped for application (not partial VIN) at the factory where the engine is assembled at the time of assembly. The POP would be stamped at the car assembly factory - so if the stamp pad was misread the error could be introduced at the time the POP was made. Post a picture after you clean your stamp pad and post a picture of your tranny partial VIN if you have one.

**bilede** · #3 03-21-2006, 02:08 AM

sure looks like a fresh pouring of paint on there for some reason. clean it up and see what you got.

47Hammer · #4 03-21-2006, 02:17 AM

Sam, Guess what? Non original Trans, T 10(bummer) but most everything else on the car is there. The motor was rebuilt a couple of years ago and decked so the vin# is gone. I just had the engine compartment detailed and had a chance to take that picture without the alternator on it. I have been under the car looking for the stamping around the oil filter but can't find anything. Maybe i'm looking in the wrong place, Anybody have a picture of the vin stamping down by the oil filter on a '70 Z28? Thanks.

47Hammer · #5 03-21-2006, 02:19 AM

I did that.

**mockingbird812** · #6 03-21-2006, 02:26 AM

If your engine was decked, then you wouldn't have your original application stamping anyway (in most cases). When the engine was restamped (if that is what was done) maybe that person mis-stamped the application code.

**bilede** · #7 03-21-2006, 03:03 AM

highjacked this from another thread, credit - Chuck Sharin for the pic..

47Hammer · #8 03-21-2006, 03:08 AM

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Thanks Bill. That should work, I wasn't looking there.

47Hammer · #9 03-21-2006, 03:12 AM

My car was built @ Van Nuys, Are the #'s in the same spot?

**scott s** · #10 03-21-2006, 04:43 AM

van nuys car should have the vin stamp on the deck as this pic shows...

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